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TIL-The Choctaw fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy

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R7P79 TIL Danica McKellar, the actress who played Winnie Cooper on the Wonder Years, went on to write six books on mathematics, including "Hot X: Algebra Exposed," "Kiss My Math," and "Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape."
oRVDA TIL that the creators of Dragon Tales added a third kid named Enrique to the series in the third season, in an effort to educate preschoolers mildly in Hispanic culture
x68G1 TIL that there exists real footage of one of the most unethical psychological experiments. Its the conformity experiment from Stanley Milgram and was conducted after the atrocities of WW2. It shows a real participant truly believing that he's conforming to killing another subject.
VMpAD TIL that Rameses II, the most prolific tomb builder and longest reigning pharaoh of ancient Egypt, was a redhead.
PYr5G TIL a cow from Bulgaria was almost killed because it wandered off outside the EU borders lacking the necessary paperwork.